Microsoft has not made the browser upgrades necessary to enable a fully-featured YouTube experience, and has instead re-released a YouTube app that violates our Terms of Service….It has been disabled. We value our broad developer community and therefore ask everyone to adhere to the same guidelines.

Microsoft counters by saying that Google’s own apps on Android and iOS do not use HTML5, and they are hardly applying the “same guidelines” to everyone.

Peter Bright at ArsTechnica label Google’s demands “arbitrary,” saying “Google’s own engineers have implicitly deemed HTML5 to not be good enough by not using it themselves.”

“Google’s behavior appears to be more than a little capricious” he notes. “Other unofficial YouTube clients exist, and thus far Google appears not to have killed them off with the same vigor it has demonstrated while going after Microsoft’s client.”

Howard’s letter concludes by once again asking that Google stop blocking the YouTube app:

We think it’s clear that Google just doesn’t want Windows Phone users to have the same experience as Android and Apple users, and that their objections are nothing other than excuses.

Google should explain why they are suddenly insisting that its competitors produce inferior apps. And if there isn’t a good excuse, the Justice Department and the FTC should get on the stick and take action to stop Google from engaging in its continual pattern of monopolistic practices.

I feel so much pity for both parties that I just don’t know what to say. I mean, Microsoft and Google can’t we all just get along? You can BOTH give our data to the NSA for vast sums of money. Lets hug it out guys..